I 2018 deltog ansatte i Folketinget i en arbejdspladsvurdering (APV). I Politiken kritiserer jeg sammen med andre eksperter det metodiske grundlag for denne undersøgelse. Konkret udtaler jeg: Det virker til at være et utroligt dårligt formuleret spørgsmål, som jeg generelt ville være meget, meget påpasselig med at bruge til at sige, at der ikke skulle […]
Month: September 2020
Political science syllabi
Over the years I have saved various syllabi in a local folder. I decided to do some digital housekeeping the other day with the aim of getting rid of the folder. Instead, I found links to the syllabi online and deleted the folder (including the ones that I couldn’t find). This is a overview I […]
Problems with the Big Five assessment in the World Values Survey #2
In 2017, I published a study in Personality and Individual Differences with Steven G. Ludeke. Our motivation for conducting the study was that other studies uncritically used the Big Five data in the World Values Survey without evaluating the reliability of the data. In brief, and to recap, the data was unable to capture inter-individual […]
Er Socialdemokratiet gået tilbage i meningsmålingerne?
Da coronavirussen brød ud, oplevede Socialdemokratiet en voldsom fremgang i meningsmålingerne. Forleden kunne en Megafon-måling vise, at Socialdemokratiet “fastholder [en] kæmpe vælgeropbakning”. Det tyder altså på, at der stadig er stor opbakning til Socialdemokratiet i meningsmålingerne. I et nyt vægtet snit hos Altinget formidles det dog, at de “seneste måneders medvind for Socialdemokratiet [er] begyndt […]
Reproduce before you replicate
There is an important distinction between reproduction and replication in scientific research. Reproduction is when you use the same data from a study to (re)produce the findings in that particular study. Replication is when you use different data to examine whether you will get the same results (i.e. cross-validation). I often think about this distinction […]